Quotes About Old

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

But why is it prohibited? asked the Savage. In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else. The Controller shrugged his shoulders. Because it's old; that's the chief reason. We haven't any use for old things here. Even when they're beautiful? Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

You remind me o another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct.

He was thinking of death; death in the form of a new life growing and growing in his belly, like an embryo in a womb. The one thing fresh and active in his old body, the one thing exuberantly and increasingly alive was death.

Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

What old, earthy, Panic rite came to extinction here? he wondered.

Mushroom people are fond of saying, 'There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.' 

your mind like that, then you kept it in good order for a longer period of time, and you put off the day when you would be sitting in the sun, like some of the very old people, not exactly sure which day of the week it was and wondering why the world no longer made the sense that it once did. Yet such people were often happy, he reminded himself, possibly because it did not really matter what day of the week it was anyway.

Eddie let out a whistle. "You really got rid of that old bag." "Please don't call her that." "But that's what she is," said Eddie. "She complained to me about the Parmesan the other day. She more or less accused me of substituting grana. She's a real pain. Big-time.

This car was a Rover 90, made in 1955, and therefore very old.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Japan continues to give this unexampled view of history. It also offers the excitement of watching change. Old and new in these small provincial cities continue to exist side by side, and the new is often built directly beside, rather than directly on top of. One may, for a time, compare; for a space, see history in the gap. Very attractive to a heritage-starved, history-parched American.

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

But we must find somewhere appropriate to leave Henry." He groaned. "You look so extremely respectable, you know." "I have a flexible mind—I believe it's one of the advantages of growing old," she explained. "I find youth quite rigid at times. Why not a cemetery?" Colin

The scenario you just experienced was borrowed from a very old science fiction story," replied Dr. Brennan. "The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin. Relatively short, but considered a classic. Different

I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. I now close my military career and just fade away.

When we say New Covenant we should understand this as heavenly covenant. When we say Old Covenant we should understand heavenly shadow covenant.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Our beloved Chairman Mao had started the Cultural Revolution in May. Every day since then on the radio we heard about the need to end the evil and pernicious influences of the "Four Olds": old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. Chairman Mao told us we would never succeed at building a strong socialist country until we destroyed the "Four Olds" and established the "Four News.

I searched for something to say to comfort him, but he spoke first. "Well, I guess the old man came out to greet his public again.